PostPartisan Archive: Capehart

I've struggled all day for something to say about the devastating earthquake and tsunami that have shaken and flooded Japan. The pictures of homes, motor vehicles, airplanes and ships tossed about like toys in a playroom defy imagination. The...

National Public Radio is in full defensive crouch. In the wake of the James O'Keefe sting, the CEO and the chief fundraiser have been sent packing. And now the bosses have released e-mails that prove that the $5 million...

A governor did an end-run around an intransigent minority. A union leader won by losing. A cranky congressman made a colleague cry in public at the same time a conference on bullying was being hosted by the president. A...

I was standing behind the press cordon at the bullying conference in the East Room of the White House when the news came over Twitter that Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) broke down in tears at the House Homeland Security...

Valerie Jarrett had just run through what would happen at today's summit on bullying when I asked her a rather blunt question. With all that's going on -- fights over budget cuts, the encroaching debt ceiling, the economy, job...

Before I got into journalism, I worked for two years as the assistant to the president of WNYC, New York's public television and radio stations. That was 1990 to 1992, when they were still owned by the City of...